FM Loop Antenna Outdoor, Attic-Mount and RV FM Antenna

I had a somewhat unusual FM reception problem and I was looking for a way to solve it. The FM stations that I want to hear are all approximately 25 miles distant, on a mountain ridge. There are three groups of antennas, with the outer groups separated by about 90 degrees relative to my location. I was mostly interested in five stations, one in the left location, two at the center location, and two at the right-most location. Two of the stations were 50,000 watts, while three were only 20,000 watts. I had to install the antenna, whatever it was, in the attic of my house. I installed a coax cable to carry the signal from the attic down to the FM tuner. An ordinary dipole antenna just didn't give enough signal strength at the FM tuner. I then tried a four-element beam which was the biggest size I could fit into the crawl space. I found that the beam could pick up the weaker stations if it was aimed dead-on at the station, but then didn't pick up the weaker stations in the other locations. I then tried the Britta loop. It received all the locations, but not strong enough on the weakest left-most location. My final solution was to combine the beam and the Britta loop, with the beam aimed dead--on at the weakest station, and the Britta picking up the rest. This resulted in getting a good signal from all the stations. I used a signal-strength meter to set this all up and get the optimum combination. I'm not sure what the units are on the meter, but the scale is 0-100 points. I was very surprised to discover that the beam was only superior to the Britta when aimed dead-on at the transmitter. For everything else, the Britta was superior to the beam. The maximum advantage of the beam when aimed dead-on was 10 points. When the beam was off-axis the Britta was superior by about 10 points. What this says is that for almost all applications the Britta is the antenna to use. It is essentially non-directional, which means you don't have to fuss with exact aiming. It picks up all but the weakest signals, and is easy to mount. I must say, the quality of the Britta surprised me, given its relatively small size and omni-directional construction. It is also extremely well made, with several nice touches such as a guide for the coax cable and high-quality mounting hardware. I recommend it without reservation for all but the most remote setups and locations. For a very weak signal, a large beam with more than four elements would be needed to get a much better signal than the Britta, and such a large beam antenna would really need much more elaborate mounting than the Britta. In short, it's an outstanding antenna for all stations except the very weakest where a large beam is needed or the very strongest where a plain dipole will work.

This replaced my 300ohm 2 wire antenna (Indoor) that attached to my Pioneer TX-9500 Receiver. Upon unboxing I was skeptical of quality while assembling. Assembly is very straightforward but the parts are really light which makes them feel somewhat cheap. It is probably for the best they are as light as possible so there is less load on whatever you use to mount your antenna. I mounted this with a Jansky Adjustable Attic Antenna Mount (not the best but its bolted to my house now.....) and used Logico RG6 Coax cable used ~100' (seems legit) with a RCA coax 75ohm to 300ohm antenna adapter (sketchy but works). I installed this at the highest point possible in my roof which is about even with the houses nearest to me. Once running all the cable, mounting it all and drilling holes in my wall, I was blown away at the increase in signal strength and additional channels this added. Way more value than I ever expected. Due to it being Omni Directional I only saw gains, no channels were lost. I wrote down all channels before and after along with their strengths. My TX-9500 has a signal strength indicator, unfortunately for the nerds among us it does not have units, it is just 0-5 I assume its a linear representation of signal power. Here is the data from before and after in the attached photo. Test was conducted back to back, I collected data from the old antenna then swapped them and repeated the scan. As you can see it made a MASSIVE difference. My MPX noise filter was on and Muting level was 1. All shown channels were very clear, meaning smooth audible vocals with little or no static. A lot of that comes down to the filters in the tuner, regardless I have yet to have intermittent channel blackouts like I did with my old antenna. I hope this product works as well for me as others. I live in Southern California so the skies are very clear and the landscape is open valley surrounded by mountains. I am very happy and will definitely buy again/recommend to friends.

Works great! I mounted it in my attic and it improved my FM reception 110%! My only gripe is that one of the small screws required to assemble it was missing, and I had to make a trip to the hardware store in order to finish putting it together. the two tiny rubber washers were also loose in the box, but I did find both of them. I would suggest to the manufacturer to put all the screws, washers, ect. in the plastic bag with the rubber boot provided for the antenna cable to prevent loss.

Mounted the antenna on a short mast on the rooftop. Assembly was easy. you need to think about ordering sufficient coaxial antenna cable to easily reach from your rooftop to your receiver. Search “antenna cable” in Amazon to find the appropriate length. You may want to purchase cable clips to hold down your cable to the exterior of your house. These worked nicely for me: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MT1T425/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 If you want to get fancy, you can order clips designed to hold the antenna cable to the mast. I have found that good quality electrical tape works just fine. Check your receiver's antenna input and match up with your incoming coax fitting, BEFORE you order so you can “get on with it” as soon as the antenna arrives. If needed, Amazon has adapters which will take you from the coax fitting to a "wire and screw" or "pinched wire" hookup arrangement, if that's what's on the back side of your receiver. You may have bought this antenna to be able to pick up distant / weak FM signals. The antenna is NOT a miracle worker. You may wind up purchasing an antenna booster, and yup, Amazon just happens to carry them. Remember: FM is line-of-site so no matter how good the antenna, if your desired station is below the horizon, as measured from the height of your antenna, you will need a dispensation from the laws of physics to receive that channel. (Good luck with that!) :)